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that came out, three senior nsa officers who among them working for the nsa, they have all been whistle-blowers for the past seven years trying to go through the official whistle-blower channel, they cannot get any traction on it. that is good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here. robert higgs and anthony gregory and especially all of view, this is an incredibly important issue. something more important, something you can share in them. bob and anthony's book foresail at the book tableland they're here to sign the feel like and we have content on our web site, independent.org. the program will be available, there are many articles that they have written, analysis and a lot of information you can use and share with your friends and hopefully empower us to shift the culture, abolish the current state of affairs and have a much brighter future. we hope to see you again soon at another independent institute event. thank you and good night. [applause] >> you are watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> here is a look at some books being published
that came out, three senior nsa officers who among them working for the nsa, they have all been whistle-blowers for the past seven years trying to go through the official whistle-blower channel, they cannot get any traction on it. that is good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here. robert higgs and anthony gregory and especially all of view, this is an incredibly important issue. something more important, something you can share in them. bob and anthony's book foresail at the...
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working for the nsa, all whistle-blowers, all trying to go through the official channels. it could not give any traction on. they call edward snowden a hero. that's good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here. especially the is he who were here this evening. this is an incredibly important issue. probably nothing more important now. the information, we have a lot of content on the website, including many, many, many articles, analysis. a lot of information the you can take in use and share with your friends and hopefully in powerless. abolish this current state of affairs and have a much brighter future. we hope to see you again soon. thank you and goodbye. [applause] >> who would like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. >> here's some of the latest headlines around in the public to the publishing industry. author and political journalist died on wednesday, august 14th he spent 40 years in political journalism working at the baltimore sun and the was
working for the nsa, all whistle-blowers, all trying to go through the official channels. it could not give any traction on. they call edward snowden a hero. that's good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here. especially the is he who were here this evening. this is an incredibly important issue. probably nothing more important now. the information, we have a lot of content on the website, including many, many, many articles, analysis. a lot of information the you can take in...
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i don't think the nsa has a reputation that american people will trust the nsa because the nsa says trust me. who gets to say trust me? >> this is not an unknown problem in american government. you put out what the government policy and the general procedures are. congress authorizes, and if there's a skinny for supreme court, or for a court case of some type, you follow it. i mean, i think they should be put into the general way that american society big questions that trade on security, resources, and privacy and civil liberties. but you can't do it in a completely open with. so i'm for following the system this country is to decide the questions. >> plato in his republic would've said the nocturnal council, right, secret body in the back. we don't do that, right? we are democracy, but gosh, when you compare to what the system was 50 years ago, the extent of oversight is just huge. gin sloshing sure who was head of the cia 34 years ago told me once that lunch that there was no oversight committee then, no intel oversight. so you go and brief the senators at lunch about what was going on
i don't think the nsa has a reputation that american people will trust the nsa because the nsa says trust me. who gets to say trust me? >> this is not an unknown problem in american government. you put out what the government policy and the general procedures are. congress authorizes, and if there's a skinny for supreme court, or for a court case of some type, you follow it. i mean, i think they should be put into the general way that american society big questions that trade on security,...
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information obtained by the nsa resulting in the u.s. issuing travelers warnings overseas, closing a number of indices throughout much of what we call the arab world, and also we're seeing heightened security here at home as well. you have been very critical as it turns out this open question goes to of the role of the nsa and the surveillance program as well. knowing what we know right now, knowing that much of this information has come from intercepts by the nsa, are you at this point changing your mind about the way you view the nsa's surveillance programs and the way to make impact our federal americans? try to know. four years i was on the intelligence community in the congress. i understand how they work. i don't know the details of these. i'm not on the intelligence community now. but we can presume that these were international intercepts, and which we should be doing. but the idea of vacuum cleaner wholesaler collection of information of personal information about americans has completely unacceptable. it's not simply unconstitu
information obtained by the nsa resulting in the u.s. issuing travelers warnings overseas, closing a number of indices throughout much of what we call the arab world, and also we're seeing heightened security here at home as well. you have been very critical as it turns out this open question goes to of the role of the nsa and the surveillance program as well. knowing what we know right now, knowing that much of this information has come from intercepts by the nsa, are you at this point...
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we'll hear from nsa and cia director, former nsa and cia director michael hayden. he spoke to the group today about cybersecurity and challenges facing industry and how much protection expect to get from the government. >> well, good morning, and thanks to have a chance to chat with you today. i will try to limit my transmission of your to about 20 minutes or so and then leave about 15 minutes for any questions or comments that yo have. as suggested, my purpose here's what my army buddies used to call a briefing with a big hand and the little mouth. i get to do the strategic overview. and what you have following me our people far more expert than i can be specific definitions of the problem, and specific responses to the problems i think we're all going to identify here today. folks from government, folks from industry, federal government, state and local government, think tanks who can, and perhaps begin to map out a way ahead that we certainly wanted to see requested in our final report. so let me begin. as i said, they can, little nap, broad concepts and then as
we'll hear from nsa and cia director, former nsa and cia director michael hayden. he spoke to the group today about cybersecurity and challenges facing industry and how much protection expect to get from the government. >> well, good morning, and thanks to have a chance to chat with you today. i will try to limit my transmission of your to about 20 minutes or so and then leave about 15 minutes for any questions or comments that yo have. as suggested, my purpose here's what my army buddies...
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i'll quote his former associates in the nsa that came out, three senior nsa officers who, among them, have almost a hundred years experience working for the nsa. they've all been whistle-blowers the past seven years, trying do go through the official channels, couldn't get traction on it, and they could snowden a hero. i say that's good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here, bob and anthony, so much for being with us, and especially all of you who were here this evening. this is an incredibly important issue, probably nothing more important now, and we hope that you have lerved thing -- learned things, and bob and anthony's books are available for sale op the book table and here to sign them, if you'd like, and for further information, we have a lot of content on our website, independent.org including this program to be available there, many, many articles that they have written, analysis, and i think a lot of information that you can take and use and share with your friends and hopefully empower us to really shift the culture. in the mediate term, abolish this curre
i'll quote his former associates in the nsa that came out, three senior nsa officers who, among them, have almost a hundred years experience working for the nsa. they've all been whistle-blowers the past seven years, trying do go through the official channels, couldn't get traction on it, and they could snowden a hero. i say that's good enough for me. i want to thank everybody for being here, bob and anthony, so much for being with us, and especially all of you who were here this evening. this...
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listened to by the nsa, no american is having his e-mails looked at by the nsa. what the nsa does is collect metadata which means phone numbers of every call that's made, the time and the date. there's no names, no one's listening to the calls, all that information is stored. and because there is this threat -- and i've seen the intelligence, i know people always get burned, i've seen the intelligence, and if you knew what i knew, i'm trying to say that, basically, everyone who has looked at this and analyzed it, this is, i think, the most precise threat we've seen since, if not since september 11th, certainly since 2006 when there was a liquid explosive plot coming out of london which would have blown up ten airliners over the atlantic ocean which would have killed thousands and thousands of americans. but this plot is very specific as to the enormity of the attack, the catastrophic be nature of the attack that they want to car aout. and there are also a series of dates in there. but as far as the credibility of the sources, the quality of the intelligence, it i
listened to by the nsa, no american is having his e-mails looked at by the nsa. what the nsa does is collect metadata which means phone numbers of every call that's made, the time and the date. there's no names, no one's listening to the calls, all that information is stored. and because there is this threat -- and i've seen the intelligence, i know people always get burned, i've seen the intelligence, and if you knew what i knew, i'm trying to say that, basically, everyone who has looked at...
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some of the nsa recent advances apparently haven't been put in place at the time. they called and they said okay. ocean, desert and i said definitely ocean. desert will kick up radioactive dust and pose a danger to the community. they said fantastic. they called me back a week or two later and said we looked into it. it's too expensive to fill the test so we have to crash the plane in the desert. can you come up with a reason that we shouldn't put it in the ocean? and decide what about making sure we don't harm fish? i said what about saying they're visiting the area and this would cause an international integration? are the with the fish? [laughter] the lesson you should take from this is television advisers, and dramas do not have a lot of influence. [laughter] >> on behalf of the council and everyone here tonight, thank you for speaking. [applause] >>> due to the recent discussion on student loan rates in congress, for the next hour book tv brings you portions of author presentations about the cost of higher education. we start with a panel from june that includ
some of the nsa recent advances apparently haven't been put in place at the time. they called and they said okay. ocean, desert and i said definitely ocean. desert will kick up radioactive dust and pose a danger to the community. they said fantastic. they called me back a week or two later and said we looked into it. it's too expensive to fill the test so we have to crash the plane in the desert. can you come up with a reason that we shouldn't put it in the ocean? and decide what about making...
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. >> host: to pick up on your firewall, want to touch on the nsa. the news over the last month saw now have a systematic, the tapping or collection of information. again, there was a moment where phone tapping, the information was passing by. tapping phones. now it's a different model. the flow of information has pulled. we don't know the details. it is essentially taking it from the data center. where does this -- i mean, could this be -- could this be a tipping point? an alarming moment? >> guest: this is a continuation of a long history of surveillance by the united states government. it's different in degree, but not actually in kind. in the 20th-century every single telegraphs and from the united states to another country with systematically copy. now we tried to a constrain using law, domestic intelligence but we have also built networks that carry our air most thousand dreams in ways that telephone calls may not have. so we know that the nsa in the past to systematically copied wholesale all internet transmissions going through large exchange
. >> host: to pick up on your firewall, want to touch on the nsa. the news over the last month saw now have a systematic, the tapping or collection of information. again, there was a moment where phone tapping, the information was passing by. tapping phones. now it's a different model. the flow of information has pulled. we don't know the details. it is essentially taking it from the data center. where does this -- i mean, could this be -- could this be a tipping point? an alarming...
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with the nsa for instance let me put it right up front. no american is having his phone calls listened to by the nsa. no american is having his e-mails looked at by the nsa. they collect medved data which means phone number two phone number but every call that is made and the time and the date. there's no names, no one is listening to the call. all of that is stored and let's put it in the context of what is happening today because there is a threat and i've seen the intelligence and people please say if you see what i knew. i'm trying to say basically everyone that's looked at this and analyzed it, this is i think the most precise threat we have seen not since september 11th but certainly since 2006 when there was the explosive coming out of london that would have blown up the airliner over the atlantic ocean and killed thousands of americans. but this plot is very specific as to the enormity of the attack, the catastrophic nature of the attack they want to carry out and there are a series of dates. but as far as the credibility of the so
with the nsa for instance let me put it right up front. no american is having his phone calls listened to by the nsa. no american is having his e-mails looked at by the nsa. they collect medved data which means phone number two phone number but every call that is made and the time and the date. there's no names, no one is listening to the call. all of that is stored and let's put it in the context of what is happening today because there is a threat and i've seen the intelligence and people...
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he's been general counsel for the nsa, advisor to eric holder, acting assistant attorney general for national security come and special counsel to the fbi director. his predecessor at the nctc is mike leiter. mike was the second director of the national counterterrorism center from 2007-2011. and he is now senior counselor to the ceo of the data analytic company, and is also a national security analyst for nbc news. so why don't we begin with a very broad question? and that is, what is the current state of the threat from terrorism? >> where does it emanate from and how serious is it? matt, why don't we start with you? >> thanks a lot, ryan. and it's great to be. it's always daunting to talk like us anlike you said we talka lot of these subjects today and follow john mclaughlin, but i'll give it a shot under over to you, mike. i would say right off the top the thread is very different now from a counterterrorism perspective from what it was 10 years ago certain and really even four years ago. speaking of in a couple of different levels. first, as has been noted, the threat from core
he's been general counsel for the nsa, advisor to eric holder, acting assistant attorney general for national security come and special counsel to the fbi director. his predecessor at the nctc is mike leiter. mike was the second director of the national counterterrorism center from 2007-2011. and he is now senior counselor to the ceo of the data analytic company, and is also a national security analyst for nbc news. so why don't we begin with a very broad question? and that is, what is the...
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in the life of nsa -- let's go pre-cyber. okay. in the life of nsa you had a trade-off between the two squads. when you discovered a vulnerability, do you want to exploit it to play offense, or do you want to fix it to play defense? and back in the pre-cyber world, we had a pretty well worn rung in the road as to where the line is. i am willing to enter in to a debate that that line may now be in the wrong place. that the old approach to -- the old calculation. i want to keep that vulnerability because i want to use it in the future may actually be tactically correct, operationally sound in a discreet one-off decision sort of way. the cumulative effect of the discreetly correct diss has been a real strategic problem that city is unaware of vulnerability out there. so i actually think that the trend line -- the more we can axel -- accelerate the better. it will go too far and we'll kick it back. i think the trend line is in the direction of more defense, even it it has to be at the expense of offense. and right now what we need to d
in the life of nsa -- let's go pre-cyber. okay. in the life of nsa you had a trade-off between the two squads. when you discovered a vulnerability, do you want to exploit it to play offense, or do you want to fix it to play defense? and back in the pre-cyber world, we had a pretty well worn rung in the road as to where the line is. i am willing to enter in to a debate that that line may now be in the wrong place. that the old approach to -- the old calculation. i want to keep that vulnerability...
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it is now referred to as the nsa program. basically though what it did was it allowed us, and i'm confident the program we put in place, obviously i haven't been involved in the classified stuff since i left the white house but the program we put in place, saved as general alexander has said, the head of nsa, stopped over 50 attacks on the united states and our friend overseas, over the course of the last 10 or 12 years. we put in place the enhanced interrogation program, waterboarding, some people said that was torture. i don't believe it was torture. ksm may have felt like it was torture but the fact was enhanced interrogation program signed off on by the justice department, using techniqueses we used on our own people in training it wasn't torture no matter what anybody said. it was a good, legitimate program, that led to us develop the intelligence we had to have to keep america safe for seven 1/2 years. [applause] and it worked. the record speaks for itself. the cia put out a classified report in 04. we captured ksm in t
it is now referred to as the nsa program. basically though what it did was it allowed us, and i'm confident the program we put in place, obviously i haven't been involved in the classified stuff since i left the white house but the program we put in place, saved as general alexander has said, the head of nsa, stopped over 50 attacks on the united states and our friend overseas, over the course of the last 10 or 12 years. we put in place the enhanced interrogation program, waterboarding, some...
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this has been a very quiet and subdued german election with very few issues, other than the nsa prism issue name first and foremost, so i don't anticipate extraordinary volatility leading up to september 22. >> just very quickly. i would say heather is right. i think that the euro crisis is no longer front and center as the main issue for the g20 leaders to discuss at this summit. but elements of, a, i guess i would first say i think certainly the u.s. and probably others are not going to be quite as comforted by one quarters, you know, modestly positive growth in thinking that the overall crisis is solved. and, second, i think there will be elements of the your situation, including germany's six, 7% of gdp current account surplus that will appear in the rebalancing conversation, or banking union will be something that people will be interested in and the progress on the in the financial discussion. .. >> fiscal consolidation has been part of the conversation at the -- >> we'll leave the last couple of minutes of this program to go live now to the national press club here in washingto
this has been a very quiet and subdued german election with very few issues, other than the nsa prism issue name first and foremost, so i don't anticipate extraordinary volatility leading up to september 22. >> just very quickly. i would say heather is right. i think that the euro crisis is no longer front and center as the main issue for the g20 leaders to discuss at this summit. but elements of, a, i guess i would first say i think certainly the u.s. and probably others are not going to...
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we get information from other agencies whether that is the nsa come cia, dhs. it has been collected by other agencies with the key insight and i know i can speak to this more first hand than i can came after abdulmutallab after 2,009 that we didn't have access to some of the information would help us stop the next underwear bomber to be we have great access to the information coming from the reports provided to us by the cia. what we didn't have was the type of access we needed to them on terrorism databases. so information about individuals applying to the refugee status in the united states or the individuals applying for the visa to travel to the united states. we need to have that information not just for a minute or a day or a week but along the enough period of time that when we got right information from the cia that says he is a bad guy all we have is a first name. what can we do compare that information to the other information we have collected that the government has about people there traveling and seeking asylum here and mirror that up so we can ta
we get information from other agencies whether that is the nsa come cia, dhs. it has been collected by other agencies with the key insight and i know i can speak to this more first hand than i can came after abdulmutallab after 2,009 that we didn't have access to some of the information would help us stop the next underwear bomber to be we have great access to the information coming from the reports provided to us by the cia. what we didn't have was the type of access we needed to them on...
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the germans at least were generous supplies the nsa was -- spying on its diplomats. what impact will that have on the summit? and practicalities in the way in which leaders will approach it. >> interesting. i mean, i think that's another data point in that the broader conversation. and you know, and i assume your point about practical issues that come you know, every delegations security team and come you know, i.t. team will be a little more vigilant. i don't really know how to answer the question because i think it is, it's part of a broader conversation, heather and andy have talked about. i don't think, as i said you're trying to add to your question, i don't see any kind of profound impact on the g20 conversation itself, but, you know, but it is an issue among the members who are there so it will probably be a part of that conversation. >> yes, right over here. >> i have a question. [inaudible] >> unless japan wanted to be mentioned as a specific example of how japan is taking on its fiscal challenges, it will almost certainly not be mentioned. this is a decisio
the germans at least were generous supplies the nsa was -- spying on its diplomats. what impact will that have on the summit? and practicalities in the way in which leaders will approach it. >> interesting. i mean, i think that's another data point in that the broader conversation. and you know, and i assume your point about practical issues that come you know, every delegations security team and come you know, i.t. team will be a little more vigilant. i don't really know how to answer...
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. >> last one on the nsa. regarding a newspaper following on everything that was discussed yesterday, the guardian is saying that british authorities destroyed several hard drives that -- because they wanted to keep secrets that edward snowden had leaked from actually getting out. they were stored in the guardian's -- they had some hard drives. british authorities went in there and destroyed these hard drives. did the american government get a heads up about that the way you did about the person being detained? >> i've seen those, the published reports of those accusations, but i don't have any information for you on that. >> does the u.s. government think it's appropriate for a government, especially one of our allies, to go in and destroy hard drives? >> the only thing i know about this, you know, are the public reports about this, so it's hard for me to evaluate the propriety of what they did -- >> would not do that, would not go into a an american media company and destroy hard drives even if it meant tryi
. >> last one on the nsa. regarding a newspaper following on everything that was discussed yesterday, the guardian is saying that british authorities destroyed several hard drives that -- because they wanted to keep secrets that edward snowden had leaked from actually getting out. they were stored in the guardian's -- they had some hard drives. british authorities went in there and destroyed these hard drives. did the american government get a heads up about that the way you did about the...
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i called the nsa for national security agency and they came to my office and a private limit and i said tell me the living dead was involved in this. tell me what is the bottom line with this security aspect. they went ahead and they looked at this and we went to a room which was in the capital capital and that's a private room nothing bounces in and nothing bounces up and i won't reveal the information today. security in the capital but they said it's okay to do these if we do them this way. doesn't matter which company does them. the israeli-based company which in fact or the lgc american company it doesn't matter which one. if you do it this way it's involved this way and that's all i can say about it that way are okay. we made a decision to award the contract of what we do with the contract the ceo of the house the administrator of the house, what we do for the contract was that the providers do a survey. the providers were sprint verizon and at&t. they were five of them and i can't remember the other two. they would sign do do you want ogc or foxcom? the majority said they wanted f
i called the nsa for national security agency and they came to my office and a private limit and i said tell me the living dead was involved in this. tell me what is the bottom line with this security aspect. they went ahead and they looked at this and we went to a room which was in the capital capital and that's a private room nothing bounces in and nothing bounces up and i won't reveal the information today. security in the capital but they said it's okay to do these if we do them this way....
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now, a few weeks ago we add the former nsa official turned whistleblower thomas brake here at a press club luncheon, and he said that once employees are seeking to retain or renew security clearances and they're interviewed by investigators, one of the questions that they're asked at least some of the time is if you have ever had unlawful contact with a reporter. not unauthorized contact, but any unauthorized contact. to a lot of us, that was disturbing because we thought by merely asking that question in that context they're sending the message, intentional or not, that speaking to the press offline is forbidden and could even make you a security risk. now, obviously, the bradley manning and edward snowden leaks have raised the temperature on issue considerably, particularly in the security agencies. the no leaks message was made in a really hard core way. in a june 2012 defense department document, it was about a so-called insider threat program, and it was obtained recently by mcclap news, and it said, quote: leaking is tantamount to leaking the enemies of the united states, closed
now, a few weeks ago we add the former nsa official turned whistleblower thomas brake here at a press club luncheon, and he said that once employees are seeking to retain or renew security clearances and they're interviewed by investigators, one of the questions that they're asked at least some of the time is if you have ever had unlawful contact with a reporter. not unauthorized contact, but any unauthorized contact. to a lot of us, that was disturbing because we thought by merely asking that...
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the germans at least appear to have been genuinely surprised that the nsa which supposedly deals with terrorism is spying on its diplomats. what impact are that have on this stunt and both the pact -- this summit and the practicality in the way in which leaders will approach it? >> yea, yeah. interesting. i mean, i think that's another data point in that broader conversation, and i, you know, and i assume to your point about pacts call issues that -- practical issues that, you know, every delegation's security team and, you know, i.t. team will be a little more vigilant. i don't really know how to answer the question because i think it is, it's part of the broader conversation and the tensions that heather and andy have talked about. i don't think it -- i mean, as i sit here trying to answer your question, i don't see any kind of profound be impact on the g20 conversation itself. but, you know, but it is, it's an issue among the members who are there, and so part of that that conversation. >> yes, right over here. >> [inaudible] >> unless japan wants it to be mentioned as a specific e
the germans at least appear to have been genuinely surprised that the nsa which supposedly deals with terrorism is spying on its diplomats. what impact are that have on this stunt and both the pact -- this summit and the practicality in the way in which leaders will approach it? >> yea, yeah. interesting. i mean, i think that's another data point in that broader conversation, and i, you know, and i assume to your point about pacts call issues that -- practical issues that, you know, every...
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so they pulled in from the cia, nsa, fbi, all of the different intelligence agencies. and then put together a suggestion about how to protect yourself against these threats. that's similar to the way the nrc does it. in practical terms that's what i would envision. >> i want to make a quick point about the nerc. we are a nuclear company, and we have brought in a lot of talent from our nuclear business to help mature parts of the i.t. and our compliance programs. and we have brought their discipline and practices and processes into our nerc program. it's helped us i think mature and evolve to a very disciplined safety because they have been used to operating under that level prescription for many years. they have a lot of practice that we've been able to bring the soviet is a model that we've looked at to help us in other parts of our company. >> yeah, i would say the es-isac is well-positioned to be the mediator for us. with nerc is involvement in the es-isac already the assurances that we now have on the separation between information sharing and enforcement, it would
so they pulled in from the cia, nsa, fbi, all of the different intelligence agencies. and then put together a suggestion about how to protect yourself against these threats. that's similar to the way the nrc does it. in practical terms that's what i would envision. >> i want to make a quick point about the nerc. we are a nuclear company, and we have brought in a lot of talent from our nuclear business to help mature parts of the i.t. and our compliance programs. and we have brought their...
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she's also chair of the judicial conference of the nsa's committee on the budget, and so is well and deeply first and funding issues faced by the court and can answer i believe many of the implicit questions raised in the opening statement from both myself and senator sessions. judge gibbons, please proceed. >> chairman coons, senator sessions, members of the subcommittee, i appear before you as chair of the judicial conference committee on the budget. the judiciary very much appreciates the invitation to discuss the financial crisis facing the courts. senator coons, i am pleased that judge is a known circuit are here today. i see judge ted mickey. there's the judge from your home state. the third circuit itself -- as rest of the judiciary but it's within the circuit coordination and efforts to address the current crisis has been stellar. i also would like to recognize judge john bates right here behind me, the new director of the administrative office of the court who comes after serving on the d.c. federal district court. the $350 million, 5% across the board sequestration cuts hav
she's also chair of the judicial conference of the nsa's committee on the budget, and so is well and deeply first and funding issues faced by the court and can answer i believe many of the implicit questions raised in the opening statement from both myself and senator sessions. judge gibbons, please proceed. >> chairman coons, senator sessions, members of the subcommittee, i appear before you as chair of the judicial conference committee on the budget. the judiciary very much appreciates...
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and what we are trying to do is create another set of people also associated with nsa and cyber, whose mission is a defense, development of key devotees for the u.s. military and in the defense of the nation to be the last thing i will close on if it is the defense of the nation as you participate in an icy some of the names it's very important and the governments can help and need to help but another thing that has to happen is many of the civil networks are so purely protected themselves that it is very difficult for us to claim that we come to their aid. they need to be protected themselves and that gets to a much bigger problem in the society and that is that cybersecurity is under invested. there is a market failure in the cybersecurity field and those of you have companies to try to market products for cybersecurity is a hard slog to a lot of people don't want to spend a lot of money and acknowledge if they have a problem and so a lot of our critical businesses are more mobile than they should be and what should happen is they should take the steps to harden themselves and that's
and what we are trying to do is create another set of people also associated with nsa and cyber, whose mission is a defense, development of key devotees for the u.s. military and in the defense of the nation to be the last thing i will close on if it is the defense of the nation as you participate in an icy some of the names it's very important and the governments can help and need to help but another thing that has to happen is many of the civil networks are so purely protected themselves that...
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but what if that means, you know, having lots of a powerful nsa and drone wars and secret operations and all these other things that we're beginning to see some people say they don't like either? so we haven't really been able to, i mean, i think that the side that wants to talk about scaling back the war on terrorism at this point should also talk about the idea that it's not a false choice, to quote obama from his national archives speech, between liberty and security. it's a very real choice. and we should be coming to terms with that. >> well, i think liberty versus security and the various trade-offs and how much terrorism and damage you're willing to accept inflicted on you would be a great other panel for us to have -- [laughter] >> i'm just saying i think we've had a little bit of a -- i think sometimes we treat this conversation like we're children, and we want to believe that we can have everything, you know? and we can't. .. the analytical side. of what their data scooped up. so there is something to be had there, a conversation to be had there. i just say that, you know,
but what if that means, you know, having lots of a powerful nsa and drone wars and secret operations and all these other things that we're beginning to see some people say they don't like either? so we haven't really been able to, i mean, i think that the side that wants to talk about scaling back the war on terrorism at this point should also talk about the idea that it's not a false choice, to quote obama from his national archives speech, between liberty and security. it's a very real...
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. >> host: when you are at dhs the last to use the push of ministers are we aware of this nsa phone data collection operation? >> guest: i was not. >> host: next to war in arkansas, democrats line. >> caller: yes, my problem is that everyone is mad about the tsa but i love them. yes it's an inconvenience but would you rather be in the air at 10000 feet, 5000 feet whatever it is in your plane blows up? yes they needed to overhaul their system and get better employees but we need them. >> guest: thank you for that point and that is exactly right. we all have to have certain things to keep us safe. for example some people might not like to stop at a red light in an intersection but we recognize that we need some way of coordinating car traffic at an intersection. some trade-offs in convenience are necessary for public safety. your point is exactly right which is very few people i think would want a complete no security approach to one of the most repeated threats of al qaeda. the question is whether we should have some security and how can we make it better and you said it very well which i
. >> host: when you are at dhs the last to use the push of ministers are we aware of this nsa phone data collection operation? >> guest: i was not. >> host: next to war in arkansas, democrats line. >> caller: yes, my problem is that everyone is mad about the tsa but i love them. yes it's an inconvenience but would you rather be in the air at 10000 feet, 5000 feet whatever it is in your plane blows up? yes they needed to overhaul their system and get better employees but...
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a lot of people looked at other stories we wrote about fisa, and about nsa spying and that sort of thing. it put a human face, i think, on the otherwise inpenetrable government bureaucracy system going on. nobody ever really stands exactly -- don't understand what is going on when nsa decides to tap someone's phone. and it was a nice way to sort of show that to people. >> i agree with john when he mentioned that people seem to be more plugged in to politics now than they have ever been. there are part of the explosion of media outlet on capitol hill covering politics since 2006, 2007.ort what you see is that people are only going places that reenforce their already-held opinions. so it's important -- we all -- all of our organizations do really well, is to provide an independent viewpoint or independent look at what is going on in in washington that is simplified enough for the common person, the nonpolitical person to understand but nuanced enough that, you know, you're not boiling it down to something where they're not getting anything out of it. like, i was talking to jane before we c
a lot of people looked at other stories we wrote about fisa, and about nsa spying and that sort of thing. it put a human face, i think, on the otherwise inpenetrable government bureaucracy system going on. nobody ever really stands exactly -- don't understand what is going on when nsa decides to tap someone's phone. and it was a nice way to sort of show that to people. >> i agree with john when he mentioned that people seem to be more plugged in to politics now than they have ever been....
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a couple of weeks you we had a former nsa official turned whistleblower thomas drake here at a press club luncheon. and he said that when federal employees obtain or renew security clearances, and there are interviewed by investigators, one of the questions the past, at least some of the time, is whether the employee has ever had unauthorized contact with a reporter. not unauthorized conduct involving classified or proprietary information, but any unauthorized contact. to a lot of us that was disturbing because we thought by merely asking that question in the context, they're sending the message, intentional or not, that speaking to the press off line is forbidden and could even make you a security risk. obviously, the bradley manning and edward snowden leaks have raised the temperature on this issue considerably, particularly in the security agency. the nl the message was made in a really hard-core way in a june 2012 defense department document, about a so-called insider the program and it was obtained recently by the news and it said quote hammer this fact tone, leaking is tantamou
a couple of weeks you we had a former nsa official turned whistleblower thomas drake here at a press club luncheon. and he said that when federal employees obtain or renew security clearances, and there are interviewed by investigators, one of the questions the past, at least some of the time, is whether the employee has ever had unauthorized contact with a reporter. not unauthorized conduct involving classified or proprietary information, but any unauthorized contact. to a lot of us that was...
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little bit about the relationship especially in light of what's happened with edward snowden and the nsa, that relationship with, between the foreign-facing come poems, the national security facing come poems of the american be government and its relationship to owners and operators of critical infrastructure who traditionally operate domestically? >> well, there are two trends, scott, that are important. upside pinnings of your -- underpinnings of your question. first of all, oh the last decade -- over the last decade increasing lu the department of defense relies on facilities here in the united states in order to operate our forces abroad. and so when you look at the dependence of dod facilities, military bases here on privately-owned infrastructure, especially the electric grid for purposes of today, you can see the imperative for dod to be able to partner effectively not only with industry to assure the flow of those vital electricity services, but, of course, also with the department of energy and the department of homeland security which will always be with in the lead for the fed
little bit about the relationship especially in light of what's happened with edward snowden and the nsa, that relationship with, between the foreign-facing come poems, the national security facing come poems of the american be government and its relationship to owners and operators of critical infrastructure who traditionally operate domestically? >> well, there are two trends, scott, that are important. upside pinnings of your -- underpinnings of your question. first of all, oh the last...
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that revealed that nsa has repeatedly broken privacy rule and overstepped the authority for years. and so leahy came out today with a statement saying that he remains concerned that congress is still not getting straight -- he hopes to hold another hearing when congress returns to get the -- >> how bad was the report they published on thursday. >> it's pretty damning. and just in worse physician than it was. with the survey less than program. and it also calls in to question the statement that the president made last week at thes press con friday at the white house or other statements that administration official have made. and the report showed that the nsa had procured private communications thousand of times without proper authorization. "the washington post did an analysis and found that most of the incident were unintended and that involved an unauthorized surveillance americans or foreign target in the united. senator leahy when congress returns in september going hold a -- where is congress on this? how far have they got ton the issue? is there any legislative solution to th
that revealed that nsa has repeatedly broken privacy rule and overstepped the authority for years. and so leahy came out today with a statement saying that he remains concerned that congress is still not getting straight -- he hopes to hold another hearing when congress returns to get the -- >> how bad was the report they published on thursday. >> it's pretty damning. and just in worse physician than it was. with the survey less than program. and it also calls in to question the...